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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the woman in The Eaten Heart swear to never do again at the end of the poem?
(a) Sleep.
(b) Eat meat.
(c) Make love.
(d) Live till morning.

2. What was broken in Protocols?
(a) Friendship.
(b) Love.
(c) Fidelity.
(d) Marriage.

3. What is the woman in May I Feel Said He worried about?
(a) Her husband.
(b) The man's wife.
(c) Being overtaken.
(d) Losing her virginity.

4. Where does the man in June Light hear his lover's voice from?
(a) The radio.
(b) The window.
(c) The wind.
(d) The orchard.

5. Who wrote The Passionate Shepherd to His Love?
(a) William Yeats.
(b) Christopher Marlowe.
(c) E.E. Cummings.
(d) Shakespeare.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Valentine rhymed with in A Very Valentine?

2. What is the woman in On Monsieur's Departure unable to cut?

3. What does Caroline explain in each section?

4. Who wrote The Weather Cock Points South?

5. Who wrote May I Feel Said He?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is To Aphrodite of the Flowers, at Knossos about?

2. What is Little Clown, My Heart about?

3. What does "You must know that I do not love and that I love you" relate?

4. What is Worked Late on a Tuesday Night about?

5. What is Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour about?

6. What is Letter from My Wife about?

7. What is The Smaller Orchid about?

8. What is To Speak of Woe That Is In Marriage about?

9. What is When You Have Forgotten Sunday: the Love Story about?

10. What is Youth about?

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